1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I can always live by my pen.